Winter 2009

Former football player pursues opera career.

Professor’s work could revolutionize treatment of knee and hip pain.

Cyclist with epilepsy travels the world spreading awareness with Seize The World Foundation.

Lars Krutak knows about ritual pain. The 38-year-old anthropologist has dozens of tattoos and decorative scars given to him by the tribal people he studies in such far-flung places as Hawaii, the Philippines and Indonesia.

With hoozat, users can make their online information — currently through Facebook and Twitter — available to people nearby.

Denver Nuggets basketball player Chauncey Billups stands very tall in Denver and at CU — now more than ever.

CU’s role in preserving Boulder’s greenbelt.

Every morning, thousands of people jump in the shower, but many don’t realize the irony of this practice.

By the time President John F. Kennedy gave his Sept. 12, 1962, speech making the case for America to go boldly into space, one CU alum had already been there and done that.

With many animal species in sharp decline because of a thriving illegal animal trade, CU Boulder and other researchers have developed sequenced DNA bar codes to identify hunted wildlife species.

Dorms have always had a family-type feel, but this fall, Andrews Hall in the Kittredge Complex took the concept one step further when associate professor Scot Douglass of engineering, his wife and two children moved in.

A featured course from the winter 2009 issue.

In June, Twitter awed the world with its potential for breaking news during the Iranian election protests.

More than 100 years ago, those who wanted to teach high school in Colorado merely needed to complete high school.

This fall Sierra Club’s magazine named CU Boulder the top “green” university in the nation, a jump up from its No. 2 ranking last year.

CU Boulder statistics and numbers from the winter 2009 issue.

The football team struggled during the non-conference portion of its schedule, posting a 1-3 record before starting Big 12 action.

A difficult early-season schedule for the soccer team resulted in five losses before the official end of summer, but it bolstered the Buffs for a fast start in Big 12 Conference play.

The volleyball team defeated Valparaiso in its first match under new coach Liz Kritza and finished the non-conference schedule 5-4.

Senior Monica Milewski won the main singles draw at the season-opening CU Invitational, defeating senior teammate Melisa Esposito in the finals.

Both basketball teams will play in Colorado plenty of times in the early part of the season.

Olympian Jenny Barringer started her final season as a Buff athlete in style, setting a record in winning CU’s Rocky Mountain Shootout in early October.

Sports tidbits from the winter 2009 issue.

For the first time, the women’s golf team hosted its Heather Farr Memorial tournament at CU’s new home course, the Colorado National Golf Club in Erie.

When Lea Alvarado began her new job as alumni career counselor at CU-Boulder in August, the phone started ringing off the hook.

In September 1934 the women’s dormitory, now Sewall Hall, opened and is considered by many to be campus architect Charles Klauder’s masterpiece.

Dolores N. Plested, 101, died November 11 at her home in Denver.

As far as Stephen Romine was concerned, the legend at the bottom of the trail map was never to scale.

When he graduated last December, Tyler Silverman wasn’t even in the country.

While in her 20s, Colorado-born Kirsten Ring Murray moved to Seattle with an enthusiasm for its romantic landscape — woods, mountains and water and, hopefully, a career in architecture.

In her first assignment as a photojournalist in 1968, Sandra Cortner moved her subject outside because of necessity — she hadn’t earned enough money yet to buy a flash.

A photo from the winter 2009 issue.